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ReviewMediators of inflammation2021

Key Factor Regulating Inflammatory Microenvironment, Metastasis, and Resistance in Breast Cancer: Interleukin-1 Signaling.

Fengjie Liu, Lihong Li, Meng Lan, Tengteng Zou, Zhaodi Kong, Tiange Cai, Xiao Yu Wu, Yu Cai

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Review in Mediators of inflammation, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 15% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 29 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Fengjie Liu *College of Pharmacy, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6509-9254
Lihong Li *College of Pharmacy, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China.
Meng Lan *College of Pharmacy, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China.
Tengteng ZouCollege of Pharmacy, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China.
Zhaodi KongCollege of Pharmacy, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China.
Tiange CaiCollege of Life Sciences, Liaoning University, Shenyang 110036, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9228-2372
Xiao Yu WuLeslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada M5S 3M2.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5333-8115
Yu CaiCollege of Pharmacy, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8532-7816
Jinan University · CNLiaoning University · CNUniversity of Toronto · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Breast cancer is one of the top-ranked cancers for incidence and mortality worldwide. The biggest challenges in breast cancer treatment are metastasis and drug resistance, for which work on molecular evaluation, mechanism studies, and screening of therapeutic targets is ongoing. Factors that lead to inflammatory infiltration and immune system suppression in the tumor microenvironment are potential therapeutic targets. Interleukin-1 is known as a proinflammatory and immunostimulatory cytokine, which plays important roles in inflammatory diseases. Recent studies have shown that interleukin-1 cytokines drive the formation and maintenance of an inflammatory/immunosuppressive microenvironment through complex intercellular signal crosstalk and tight intracellular signal transduction, which were found to be potentially involved in the mechanism of metastasis and drug resistance of breast cancer. Some preclinical and clinical treatments or interventions to block the interleukin-1/interleukin-1 receptor system and its up- and downstream signaling cascades have also been proven effective. This study provides an overview of IL-1-mediated signal communication in breast cancer and discusses the potential of IL-1 as a therapeutic target especially for metastatic breast cancer and combination therapy and current problems, aiming at enlightening new ideas in the study of inflammatory cytokines and immune networks in the tumor microenvironment.

Indexed as

Breast NeoplasmsDrug Resistance, NeoplasmFemaleHumansInflammationInterleukin-1Molecular Targeted TherapyNeoplasm MetastasisPolymorphism, Single NucleotideSignal TransductionTumor EscapeTumor MicroenvironmentInterleukin-1

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PMID34602858
PMCPMC8486558
OpenAlexW3201715601

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